U.S. STUDENT NURSES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 1, 27 September 1943, Page 3

U.S. STUDENT NURSES

Need For Another 100,000

Wider enrolment of student nurses is being caljed in the United States, where there is already an acute, shortage of graduate nurses. The Office of War Information in Washington states that by next year unless “drastic steps are taken” the supply will fall short of requirements by 109,000. It was estimated that by then 359,000 nurses would be needed, 66,000 in the arnied services and 293,000 in civilian life. American hospital facilities are strained and cannot take on at once 100,000 student nurses, but there are immediate facilities for training 65,000 being recruited for streamlined courses cut by from four to 12 months. The American arnied forces have obsorbed 33,000 graduate nurses and more are needed at the rate of 2500 a month. A shortage of nurses in hospitals and public clinics has been ascribed largely to the recruiting of 12,000 by industry tor clinics in war plants. Two years ago clinics in industrial plants had only imOO nurses.